The era of scripting languages is opening up programming to the masses and extending the Web as an application platform. Even the traditional Java and Microsoft languages have had to make room for ...

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Every few years something significant happens in the land of computer programming. In my opinion the Ruby computer language is such a landmark. Over the years I have seen programmer productivity go up ...

If you have the skills, Go, Scala and Ruby are the programming languages most likely to get you job interviews, although JavaScript, Python and Java are the languages most used by developers.

The former second-class citizens of the programming world have leaped to the fore, changing the face of enterprise software development. With the rise of Web 2.0, scripting languages (also called ...

Popular scripting language Ruby is branching out into embedded applications, with an Mruby version of the language. But the main Ruby variant is viewed by its founder as needing only minor ...

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However, while we’ve covered several in depth, those five dynamic languages are not the only ones developers use. Since every programming language is a tool suited to solve a particular problem, it ...

The latest edition of the TIOBE Index that plots the popularity of programming languages focuses on the reascendance of Ruby in the rankings. "Ruby is currently at position 8 in the TIOBE index," said ...

The rumors about the demise of Ruby have been circulating the developer world for years and articles prophesying the “death” of Ruby appear with amazing regularity. Yet, the language and its main ...